St. Paul daily globe., 1887-06-29
1.-THE DEAR BARON"
A Combination of Romance and
Rapacity Involving Two Gown

A Combination of Romance and
Rapacity Involving Two CoHn-
tries.
New YORK, June 2S.-The Times this
morning prints the following history of
the case of Baron Seilliere: About a
year ago tall, distinguished looking
man of forty years, with an aristocratic
face and sweeping black mIstache ar
rived in San Francisco on his way to his
home i'll Paris, after tour around the
world. 1t quietly became known in
the Pacific metropolis that he was
Baron Seilliere, and at the Palace hotel
in San Francisco, and the Hotel Del
Monte in Monterey he became famil-
lar figure. The coquettish young women
OF the first circles there very quietly
chriStened him 1.-The dear baron" and
being man of brilliant attainments,
wide experience and amusing eccentric
tiles he became widely known and very
popular. He also took a great fancy to
California, often declaring his intention
of settling there, and though this was
regarded as joke, it was serious mat
ter to him, as he went into the United
States court and declared his intention
of becoming citizen. Finally he left
there and came to this city. In short
time he was as well known at the Hoff-
man house as he had been at the Palace.
He possessed enormous wealth and
spent his money laviShly. He made
quite circle of friends here and when
he left he for Paris was very generally
regretted by some of the best known
men in town. These men are not lit
tie excited over certain occurrences
which are set forth in a Ietter..from one
of them which appears below. The
writer is an ex-city official of high repu-
tation and unqaestiOned: yeracity. In
aninterview last evening he said:
never received news of this matter by
cable. Letters have since arrived giving me
full particulars. Baron Seilliere went home
ter, the Princess K. de Sagan, the wife of the
president of the Jockey club, and one of the
best known ladies in Europe. Seilliere's
aunt, the Duchess de Berg, and his brother
Frank, who lives at his estate at Weildbad
in Germany, were also concerned. Seilliere
had scarcely arrived there before he received
intimatiOn that there was conspiracy on
foot against him, and he made his friends
hunt him up. He did disappear and they did
hunt him, finding that while at his aunt's he
had been seized by three men, bound and
carried to the asylum at Vannes. They
learned further that Seilliere had been de-
coyed into a state of extreme anger and i'll
preparation for it, the Princess de Sagan, Dr.
Mattel and a medical reporter were concealed
behind a screen. They took their own notes
of what had passed and, according to their
letters, their testimony sufficed after his
seizure to accomplish this commitment.
Since that time Baron Seilliere
has been close prisoner in
mad house. The case is attracting more than
ordinary interest, not only in Paris but in this
country, and particularly in this city, where
he was well known in social circles Baron
Raymond Seilliere is son of Baron Seilliere
who was the head OF the well-known bank
ing house in Paris and the owner of lhe most
extensive cloth mills in France. The De
Settlers possess great wealth, variously esti-
mated at from $50, ,oOO, 900 to 500, 900. 600
of which a large portion, in the natural order
of things. would revert to the baron, who is
liberal and generous to a fault, at times pro-
fuse, in his expenditures, and who has di-
minished his share considerably. To pre-
vent further decrease and to get possession
of the balance, which amounts to several
millions, was undoubtedly the reason of his
imprisonment The mystery surrounding
the whole matter and the impenetrable Sc
cresy as to his whereabouts increased the eX-
element caused by his disappearance. His
friends, thoroughly alarmed, engaged exper-
fenced detectives, and he was traced to an
idsane asylum in Vannes. There he remains,
and there he is likely to remain unless our
government, recognizing his claim to citi-
ZenShip, demands his release.